No music for me either, unless it's the rare occasion these days when it's a treadmill run and even then I can't usually be bothered with cables faffing about and headphones dropping out. For me I want to experience the outdoors when I'm out and not be in a bubble of music.........

It's not the same as just eating the fruit in it's whole form - your body has to do more work to break down the fibre in the real fruit and the sugar is much more slowly absorbed into your system compared to drinking a liquid smoothie when it is absorbed very quickly into your bloodstream creating a insulin hit. You are also much more likely to eat more fruit in a smoothie to get a decent sized glass of juice versus just eating say an apple, orange, banana in one sitting. Fruit sugar is still sugar even though it's from natural sources.

I'm not against the odd smoothie for something different but reckon the more you can eat the fruit in it's natural form the more likely you are to naturally manage your sugar intake and don't quite understand people glugging down these enormous smoothies thinking they are being super healthy, but each to their own I guess.....

I regularly run in Glasgow at lunchtime - you could make a very nice 18 mile route hitting all the major parks on your way - Start in the City Centre - head out to Pollok park, stopping in for a loop of Bellahouston on your way - come back out of Pollok via Maxwell Park, then head for Queen's and/or King's Park - also go the other way along the clyde and do Glasgow Green. Could also make a nice route running along the canal and drop into Kelvingrove park and Botanic Gardens - there's lots of options - whereabouts will you be based?